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Cainhoy, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29492. It stands on Fogarty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cainhoy quadrangle.

Cainhoy within Berkeley County

On record in Cainhoy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Cainhoy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,428 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 83 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Debris and open burning52
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use7.8 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFROST
10 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Natural6.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPLUM HOT
21 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsBLUENOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cainhoy: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wando QuadrangleTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Berkeley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wando0.3 miles18
Old Vat (historical)0.9 miles18
Gehlkin (historical)3.1 miles16
Charity5.4 miles13
Red Bank Landing5.6 miles16
Yellow House (historical)5.6 miles16
Remleys (historical)6.4 miles18
Moreland6.5 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122563511The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247085. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.